ENTIRE

Whole; without division, separation, or diminution. Entire contract. See CONTRACT. Entire day. This phrase signifies an undivided day, not parts of two days. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin, and a fixed, precise time to end. A day, in contemplation of law, comprises all the twenty-four hours, beginning and ending at twelve o’clock at night. Robertson v. State, 48 Ala. 325. In a statute requiring the closing, of all liquor saloons during “the entire day of any election,” etc., this phrase means the natural day of twenty-four hours, commencing and terminating at midnight. Haines v. State, 7 Tex. App. 30. Entire interest. The whole interest or right, without diminution. Where a person in selling his tract of land sells also his entire interest in all improvements upon public land adjacent thereto, this vests in the purchaser only a quitclaim of his interest in the improvements. McLeroy Duckworth, 13 La. Ann. 410. Entire tenancy. A sole possession by one person, called “severalty,” which is contrary to several tenancy, where a joint or common possession is in one or more. Entire use, benefit, etc. These words in the habendum of a trust-deed for the benefit of a married woman are equivalent to the words “sole use,” or “sole and separate use,” and consequently her husband takes nothing under such deed. Heathman v. Hall, 38 N. C. 414.